"I love it," Bernthal Booth said. "I hate being selected number one so I'm happy to put that monkey on someone else's back. You talk about motivation and it's given to us."

"It's definitely different than what we've been picked in the past," said senior outside hitter Jaali Winters. "At the end of the day, it's a preseason ranking based off people's opinions and nothing statistical so it doesn't mean much to us."

CU features three preseason All-Big East team members Jaali Winters, Taryn Kloth & Brittany Witt.